Andrew Romanoff

Andrew Romanoff talks PAC money, house sale and running against Mike Coffman

To some Coloradans, the name Andrew Romanoff is synonymous with disappointment. After losing to incumbent Senator Micheal Bennet in a primary that attracted an almost unheard-of amount of attention, the ex-speaker of the Colorado House took a lower-profile job with the International Development Ente ... More >>

Linda Newell joins parade of Dems considering 2014 challenge to Mike Coffman

Denver blog posts almost forgot what snow looked like.... Colorado Pols shares Senator Linda Newell's quasi-announcement about a possible run against Congressman Mike Coffman. She joins buzzed-about potential candidates such as Andrew Romanoff, Karen Middleton and Rhonda Fields. Plants & Animals D ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff says time isn't right to take on Mike Coffman in race for Congress

Andrew Romanoff.​Andrew Romanoff returns his calls, but it may take him a while. We dialed the ex-Colorado House speaker and Senate candidate for our November 22 interview with Democrat Joe Miklosi, who's taking on Mike Coffman in the 6th Congressional District, about rumors that he was being ... More >>

Joe Miklosi focusing on run for Congress against Mike Coffman -- not Andrew Romanoff

Joe Miklosi.​Colorado's 6th Congressional District has been a safe Republican enclave -- the sort of place likely to elect current Representative Mike Coffman for as long as he cares to serve in Congress. But a judge recently redrew lines to make the district more competitive, thereby giving a ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff's latest fundraising request is a winner

​Andrew Romanoff's had one head-spinning year. Passed over by Governor Bill Ritter in his quest to be appointed to Ken Salazar's Senate seat, Romanoff snubbed any White House entreaties regarding a job in international development in order to take on Senate appointee Michael Bennet. But even ... More >>

Ken Buck and Andrew Romanoff together again for the 1st time at birthday party fundraiser

Andrew Romanoff.​Three more Denver blog posts before the weekend. Colorado Pols has the skinny on Ken Buck crashing Andrew Romanoff's birthday/debt-retirement party. His invite must've gotten lost. Purple Row's Bryan Kilpatrick on the L.A. Dodgers' attempt to win their 438th consecutive seri ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff's debt retirement party: Was selling his house really a good idea?

Andrew Romanoff.​Andrew Romanoff, who came up short in his bid to defeat Michael Bennet in the Democratic Senate primary, is the guest of honor tonight at a party (details below) to celebrate his 44th birthday -- and to help retire his campaign debt, which would be even more oppressive if he h ... More >>

Street food lunch with a side of politics: Andrew Romanoff works the crowd at Civic Center Eats

Andrew Romanoff works the crowd at Civic Center Eats​As primary voting headed into its final hours, candidates and their teams went anyplace with a crowd, working to sway those who had yet to cast ballots. As testament to the number of Denverites who are out chasing food trucks on Tuesdays, A ... More >>

Michael Bennet: Spokesman praises local press for hammering Andrew Romanoff

Michael Bennet.​Update below: Last week in this space, Andrew Romanoff insisted that his quick rise in the polls didn't come as a result of negative attacks against his primary opponent, Michael Bennet. But during a primary-eve conversation, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid predicts that Romano ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff spokesman calls Michael Bennet camp's ad complaints a "red herring"

Andrew Romanoff.​Update below: At 11 a.m. today, Andrew Romanoff will be roaming the 16th Street Mall, shaking hands and explaining to pedestrians why it's important they vote for him in Tuesday's primary. And Romanoff spokesman Roy Teicher expresses confidence about victory even as he dismiss ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff won't be debating empty chair in Pueblo -- because too few people care

A Flickr photo​Yesterday, Democratic Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff touted his upcoming debate in Pueblo, where he was set to face an empty chair subbing for Senator Michael Bennet, who'd passed due to a scheduling conflict. "When you debate an empty chair, you're very likely to win, unless ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff says he didn't pass Michael Bennet by going negative, calls ad factual

Andrew Romanoff.​Reading the Denver Post has been a good news-bad news experience for Andrew Romanoff lately. On Sunday, the paper shared poll results showing Romanoff ahead of Senator Michael Bennet in the Democratic Senate primary race. But the paper's editorial board called an ad attacking ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff, real estate mogul

Romanoff: Sold!​There are a couple of ways to read the news that U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff sold his Denver home to help fuel his grassroots, take-no-PAC-money campaign. At first glance, unloading his house in one of the worst real-estate markets in history, for almost twice what he ... More >>

Bill Clinton loves him some Andrew Romanoff

A Flickr photo"'V' for 'victory.'"​Update, 2:27 p.m.: New info below the original 1:37 p.m. item. While Republican Ken Buck used the caucus system to transform himself from a senatorial dark horse into a frontrunner (the kind now getting attacked by the likes of Politico), Andrew Romanoff, the ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff job offers focus of House inquiry resolution

​It's getting to be a full-time job tracing the fall-out from the job offers dangled by the White House for Andrew Romanoff. According to Roll Call, House Republicans issued a resolution of inquiry last night demanding documents from the Justice Department on the White House's role in making ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff, prickly college paper editor? Get him rewrite!

​While Facebook entries will come back to haunt college students of today, earlier generations get to hide their more humiliating chapters -- unless, of course, they worked on their college papers, as Andrew Romanoff did. Not only do those papers mean hard copies of history exist, but so do ... More >>

If Andrew Romanoff wants it, there's a Colorado Supreme Court seat open

​ Andrew Romanoff is taking flak from all sides these days, with barbs coming from Republicans and Democrats alike regarding the Obama administration's various "job offers" (some would say "bribes") to persuade him not to run against Michael Bennet. Now there's another job opportunity waiting ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff can't win primary, says Dick Wadhams, and Michael Bennet needs to fess up

Dick Wadhams, scorching Dem earth.​According to Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams, there's a very simple reason why Republicans like Jane Norton have concentrated more on Michael Bennet and less on Andrew Romanoff in relation to the White House job offer scandal. Wadhams sees no scenario in whic ... More >>

Jane Norton dismisses Andrew Romanoff, targets Michael Bennet on White House job offer

"Andrew who?"​Although Andrew Romanoff has been getting loads of attention for revealing details about the White House allegedly offering him a job if he stayed out of the Democratic senatorial primary, Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton still can't take him seriously. Instead of focusing ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff: "A great deal of misinformation was filling the void"

Andrew Romanoff feels he's getting attention for the wrong things.​Andrew Romanoff's confirmation that the White House floated three jobs past him after he announced his intention to challenge Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 Democratic primary isn't his favorite subject, and he admits that ... More >>

Ken Salazar and other Barack Obama cabinet picks messier than the BP oil spill

​Today, President Barack Obama gets to enjoy the ultimate, inevitable result of tapping Janet Napolitano -- Janet Napolitano, as though the governor of Arizona was the ideal person for the job! -- to head the Homeland Security department: He'll meet with Republican governor Jan "Jannie Get Her ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff gets boost from White House job controversy

"It's nice to feel wanted."​In recent weeks, senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff has been under increasing pressure to talk about alleged job offers from the White House if he wouldn't challenge Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November, especially in light of similar claims made by Penns ... More >>

Joe Sestak job offer echoes Andrew Romanoff story

​For someone who talks a lot -- to Meet the Press Sunday, to CNN yesterday -- Pennsylvania representative Joe Sestak doesn't say a lot. Especially when he's pressed for specifics about who at the White House offered him a job if he skipped the Pennsylvania Senate primary, where he trounced Arl ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff: Pennsylvania, Arkansas votes bode well for him beating Michael Bennet

Andrew Romanoff doesn't think money changes everything.​Like Republican senatorial hopeful Ken Buck, Dem Andrew Romanoff is in a strange position vis-à-vis his party's assembly this weekend: He'll win, but that doesn't mean most people think he can defeat his better-heeled opponent -- in his ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff campaign manager Bill Romjue sees "a serious deficit of leadership"

A photo we grabbed from Andrew Romanoff's website months ago -- before the doctoring controversy.​It's a critical time for Andrew Romanoff's senatorial candidacy. There are no more caucus straw polls to win or county assemblies to ring up. And rival Michael Bennet's decision to petition his w ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff builds lead over Michael Bennet at county assemblies --

Get used to seeing Andrew Romanoff, little girl -- because he's not going away.​This weekend's Democratic county assemblies in 21 counties around the state, including many of the largest, didn't deal challenger Andrew Romanoff the kind of reality check for which many supporters of Senator Mich ... More >>

Michael Bennet: Can he stop Andrew Romanoff's momentum at tomorrow's county assemblies?

How big is Saturday for Michael Bennet?​Tomorrow, Democratic assemblies will be held in 21 counties, including many of the state's largest -- Denver, Jefferson, Boulder, Arapahoe, Douglas -- to choose delegates in advance of primaries this August. These gatherings will be a big test for Senat ... More >>

Brandon Marshall in Denver Blogs: His talent adds up to $54.6 million for six years

"Nobody told me there was going to be math..."​The blogs of Denver, readable whenever. Mile High Report links to what may be the most elaborate where's-Brandon-Marshall-going blog to date, in which Ted Bartlett uses algebra to conclude that BM deserves a contract worth $54.6 million over six ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff: Is the national political establishment starting to take his challenge to Michael Bennet seriously?

"You've heard of me? Really?"​Is Andrew Romanoff's Colorado senate run against Michael Bennet making an impact in the Beltway? Prominent mentions in the Washington Post serve as telling indications -- and the paper has name-checked Romanoff twice in as many days. Yesterday, the Post's Dan Bal ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff forces touts victory in caucus; Michael Bennet team spins loss as win

"I won. Really. Don't listen to what that other guy says."​As the clock ticked toward midnight on Tuesday, Dean Toda, spokesman for Democratic senatorial candidate Andrew Romanoff, sounded simultaneously woozy and blissed out. "I haven't had my first drink yet," he said with a laugh as the che ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff on Obama visit: "There's obviously an incumbent protection racket in D.C. that has a distate for democracy"

Andrew Romanoff says he's most interested in people who actually live in Colorado.​Supporters of Andrew Romanoff's senate campaign held a rally for their guy yesterday that was considerably lower profile than the one staged for his opponent, Michael Bennet -- an event starring a certain Presid ... More >>

Michael Bennet, Andrew Romanoff face off for the first time tonight

​Before Michael Bennet's fundraiser with President Barack Obama on Thursday afternoon, the incumbent senator has another important date: He and Democratic challenger Andrew Romanoff will meet for their first debate at 8 p.m. tonight. The faceoff at St. Cajetan's on the Auraria campus (it's sp ... More >>

Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: U.S. Senate candidate celebrity look-alikes

Colorado's political stars will shine as the candidates in the U.S. Senate race take to the stage. Don't be surprised to feel that you've seen it all before... In western wears and folksy airs, the seven Republican candidates (from left to right: Gary Kennedy, Vincent E. Martinez, Steve Barton, Jan ... More >>

Dan Hawkins in Denver Blogs: His recruiting class would be excellent... for a Division III school

"C'mon, guys! It wasn't that bad!"​Our roundup of blogs about Denver includes blogs about other places in Colorado, too. The Ralphie Report's irish1611 wins the prize for today's biggest understatement in a headline for this banner: "Media Not Too Impressed by Buffs' 2010 Recruiting Class." M ... More >>

Is Andrew Romanoff about to raise the white flag?

"Running seemed like a good idea at the time..."​Update, 10:42 a.m.: The Denver Post is reporting that Andrew Romanoff is announcing that he plans to stay in the race for U.S. Senate, not drop out, as has been rumored. Consider that in light of our original item below: Just past noon today, s ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff on staying in the Senate race: "If the fix is in, the fix should be thrown out"

Andrew Romanoff doesn't plan on going anywhere.​Earlier today, Andrew Romanoff defied the rumor mill by announcing his intention to continue his campaign for the U.S. Senate against Michael Bennet. After delivering a speech that can be read in its entirety below, Romanoff spoke to yours truly ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff more than a "nice Russian boy"

During U.S. senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff's first official campaign event in Denver yesterday afternoon, he told a story related by Ken Gordon, the man he succeeded in the Colorado House. One of Gordon's constituents thought he was retiring from politics instead of moving to the Senate -- and ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff in the starting blocks

Andrew Romanoff hopes to be house hunting in the near future.​As we pointed out in a blog last Thursday, former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff is on the cusp of announcing a challenge to Senate appointee Michael Bennet. To that end, he's made one minor alteration at AndrewRomano ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Romanoff takes another step towards the Senate

​Apparently all the behind-the-scenes arm-twisting hasn't convinced Andrew Romanoff to abandon the idea of running for Michael Bennet's Senate seat. The former Speaker of the House hasn't been speaking to the press since word of his possible Senate race leaked out two weeks ago, but yesterday, ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff ready to pull the trigger -- candidacy-wise, that is

Andrew Romanoff in an image from his out-of-date website.​Over the weekend, Andrew Romanoff turned up at a union-sponsored Labor Day picnic where current U.S. Senator Michael Bennet was also glad-handing -- one reason why a Tuesday blog about his appearance was headlined "Andrew Romanoff Sure ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff sure looking like a senatorial candidate

SquareState.netAndrew Romanoff perfecting his hand-shaking skills.​Former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff hasn't officially announced his intention to challenge Bill Ritter appointee/fellow Democrat Michael Bennet in the 2010 race for the U.S. Senate. But the mere prospect that he may d ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Romanoff on the range

​"What's he doing in the Senate?" "Why, it's an honorary appointment. He's an honorary stooge." Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on TCM yesterday afternoon -- just the thing to warm up the set (and the sofa) before Jake Cutler returned to Mile High, particularly given a ... More >>

Does a Romanoff run give aid and comfort to the enemy?

Andrew Romanoff.​The Republicans seem to be in complete disarray when it comes to finding a U.S. Senate candidate for 2010. But that doesn't mean the Democrats will be able to cruise to victory. Although current office-holder Michael Bennet handled his latest healthcare summit well, he's been ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: An end to musical chairs

Ken Salazar has been sworn in as Secretary of the Interior. Michael Bennet is now a U.S. senator. Tom Boasberg is taking over as superintendent of Denver Public Schools, promising to "accelerate reform." That leaves just one more chair to fill -- the U.S. Attorney's seat vacated by Republican Tro ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: New jobs for Andrew Romanoff

On November 5, the day after Democrats scored such a stunning upset in Colorado, I spotted affable, outgoing Colorado House of Representatives speaker Andrew Romanoff at the Saucy Noodle, of all places. He was on the phone with Bernie Buescher, the Grand Junction rep who'd looked to be next in lin ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Batting clean-up before the legislative session

Now that Michael Bennet has been named to take over for Ken Salazar in the U.S. Senate (no cowboy hat required), Colorado pols can get back to the business of running the state (at least until it's time to start running for whatever seat may be in play in 2010). Today, the Denver Board of Edu ... More >>

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